Ashley Judd is recovering after breaking her leg in the Congo region of Africa.
The 52-year-old actress joined The New York Times for an Instagram Live on Thursday and revealed that she is currently in the ICU unit of a South African hospital.
I am “in an ICU trauma unit in beautiful South Africa, which brought me from the Congo: a country that I love deeply and that, unfortunately, is not equipped to deal with massive catastrophic injuries like me,” she revealed.
Judd described, “And the difference between a Congolese person and me is the disaster insurance that allowed me, 55 hours after my accident, to reach an operating table in South Africa.”
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She added how many Congolese “don’t have” access to “a simple pain-killing pill when you break a leg in four places and have nerve damage.”
Ashley Judd said she broke her leg after falling into the Congo rainforest.
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Judd explained that the accident occurred when she was on an excursion one night and tripped over a tree that had fallen in the rainforest.
The “Kiss the Girls” star said in total that it was a 55-hour “distressing” ordeal and that “it started with five hours lying on the forest floor” until she could be evacuated. Fortunately, she was with a colleague.
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She remembered how she was “going into shock” and “passing out” from the pain, but someone came to heal her leg before her trip to South Africa started.
Judd said she was carried “an hour and a half in a hammock … by my Congolese brothers, who did this barefoot, up and down hills, across the river”.
She was then taken my motorcycle to her next location, which was six hours away, spent a night “in a cabin” in Jolu, then was flown to Kinshasa and stayed there for 24 hours before being taken back to South Africa.
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“I have a lot of love. I have a lot of compassion and a lot of gratitude,” she said. “I thank you all for your thoughts, prayers and support.”